Ssb - who is the greatest?

[wildJONESEYE]

Probably Jimmy's best snooker at the Crucible was 98,ROS cleaned him out in the qf and its forgotten because it wasnt a surprise.Your making the assertion 94 Hendry would get through ROS and MJ re 2011 qf and semi not to mention he has snooker on an intravenous drip and hasnt won one of the big 3 since 99,heck yeah all day and twice on sundays ;-)

nobody played that great this year against john higgins 2 many players for want of a better word bottled it i know for a fact hendry mid 90s wouldnt have.

[trains]

nobody played that great this year against john higgins 2 many players for want of a better word bottled it i know for a fact hendry mid 90s wouldnt have.

Stats while he was perfectly able in the 00's and the eyeball test itself dont lie,heck I like Stephens break building but your hyperboles danish pastry hahaha :-)

[Camio]

I'm not sure I get the point some are trying to make here... You cant compare, in sports, how good someone is (skillset) today vs how good or great a player was 10, 20, 30 or 40 years ago.

Reason are: technology, conditions, overall health, better training techniques, etc...

Anyone who tries to make a point saying "Higgins of today would beat the 94 Hendry" has no clue how it is in sports. The standard of today, in ALL sports, will be the average standard of what sports will be in 10-20-30 years.

That goes for ALL sports.

The only way you can compare players and come up with a top 5, 10 or 999 is going by achievements. This means WCs, ranking titles (this means winning % of games, along with how many ranking titles one won vs the amount he played), dominance of the era compare to other players of his time.

Pele was great because back then, he was head and shoulders better than everyone else. Today, he'd get his behind handed to him simply because the standard got better, better training techniques, better technology, etc...

Anyone who'd try to say Pele isnt all that great or that Messi or some other dude playing right now is "better" than what Pele was because "Messi runs faster, has a better shot (just stuff I'm making up btw)" would get laughed at.

Same apply to snooker. Compare apples to apples.

[Le Ball Sack]

At the end of the day they are all playing the same game. Its not like we are compared snooker champs against pool champs.